How do we disable the snap stuff

[Bret Busby]

On 24/07/2021, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 24.07.2021, 18:13 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> Upon booting one of my systems; UbuntuMATE 21.04, it immediately
>> starting downloading megabytes of stuff.
>>
>> Upon checking, it was automatically downloading unknown upgrade
>> stuff.
>>
>> The settings in the "Software and Updates" application had been
>> changed by the software - against my will -
>
> well, forced and unattended security upgrades *of deb packages* are a
> ubuntu default since 18.04 ... this has nothing to do with snap
> packages at all ...
>
> the UI has no setting to influence any snap behaviour ... snaps are
> push driven and will be updated immediately if the maintainer pushed a
> new package to the store ... if you did not install any snap packages
> there wont any snap packages being updated at all
>
> ... but anyway, if you want to uninstall everything related to snaps
> use:
>
> sudo apt purge snapd
>
> this will uninstall snap support and all snap packages (note, do not
> use "apt remove" as that will not remove the snap packages alongside)
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>

Thank you for that information.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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